An existing FreeBSD 10.0 installation can be easily converted to either a PC-BSD® desktop or server through the installation of a package. The converted desktop will contain all of the graphical utilities that come with PC-BSD® and the converted server will contain all of their command line equivalents.

Converting FreeBSD to a PC-BSD® Desktop

To convert a FreeBSD system into a PC-BSD® desktop, install the following package as the superuser:

pkg install pcbsd-utils-qt4

If this is the first time that you have used pkg on this system, it will prompt you to first install the package management tool. Type y as prompted to complete the installation. Once the installation is complete, run the following commands to extract the installed desktop: